Month: April 2022
Big Tech Firms Success
Big tech firms are understandably eager to trumpet these impressive figures, as well as their diverse offerings. They are considerably more coy about how much many of their products and services actually make. Annual reports and other public disclosures tend to lump large revenue streams together and describe them in the vaguest terms. Do you
America “Winning” the War in Ukraine
The Americans were not the first to visit wartime Kyiv; other leaders have already made the pilgrimage to meet Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president. Nor were the Americans the most flamboyant; they did not go for an impromptu walkabout in the city, as Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, did on April 9th. And some of their
National Space Centre Earth gallery to open
A new £250,000 gallery dedicated to the environmental challenges of life on Earth is being unveiled at the National Space Centre. It features a responsive floor projection and a time-lapse show charting rising global temperatures. The gallery features an interactive floor projection depicting ice, water, and sea creatures that respond to visitor movements. The main
The health of Lab-grown meat
A host of non-conventional foods are being developed with the aim of providing food rich in protein and other nutrients, while being gentle on the planet by using less water and land. They say switching meat, dairy and other animal products for alternative foods could reduce these impacts by more than 80%, while providing a
Elon to buy Twitter for $44bn
The board of Twitter has agreed to a $44bn takeover offer from the billionaire Elon Musk. The move comes as Twitter faces growing pressure from politicians and regulators over the content that appears on its platform. It has drawn critics from left and right over its efforts to mediate misinformation on the platform. Mr Musk,
Booster Jabs
The pandemic ain’t over. The SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread. In fact, recent weeks have seen upticks in Covid-19 cases ,raising concerns that yet another Covid-19 surge could potentially occur. Yet, many people have already gone from “we’re in this together” to “I don’t want to be inconvenienced.” They’ve been ditching Covid-19 precautions such as face
Elon Twitter Deal
Twitter is closing in on a deal to sell itself to billionaire Elon Musk that could be announced .Twitter shares jumped 4.7% to $51.25 in pre-market trading, continuing the stock’s gains since Musk’s bid for the company became public earlier this month. Twitter is considering accepting Musk’s original offer to pay $54.20 per share in
Russia Captures Ukrainians Rare Tanks
Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region have captured a very rare Ukrainian T-64BM Bulat tank.Ukraine’s greater holdings of captured tanks—and the fact that Ukrainian troops have destroyed no fewer than 275 Russian tanks while losing in combat just 53 of their own helps to explain why, in late April, one Pentagon official claimed Ukraine
Amazon $1billion AIG Funding
The AIG company developed a belt, which uses accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers, to measure how employees move during the day and buzzes when those movements could cause injuries. The company has also developed a similar device for hands and wrists that it markets with publicly traded Ansell, as well as a radio frequency identification, or
Google Photos Upgrade Scraped Off
The new Library design introduced a ‘more sortable’ library tab that presents a grid of your most recently-used albums, which can then be filtered according to their type and then sorted. Having announced its Spring Cleaning update just a few weeks ago, Google Photos appears to be undoing some of the promised changes in response to negative